by DMcGirr | Jun 25, 2009 | 365 project, Carpentry, Engineering, Table Polishing, Woodworking
So today is bit devoid of information, so I’ll give you something else: Autocad design after the Jump. It’s a coffin. This is the six sided coffin I knocked up in about six hours, and with some minor adjustments and some streamlining the finished plan will...
by DMcGirr | Apr 20, 2009 | Carpentry, Table Polishing, Woodworking
In a moment of idle contemplation, I googled “The Mad Carpenter” and apparently it has shown up in a lot of places before I got to it. I don’t see this as ripping off someone’s idea, I see it in the way I see many things: Good ideas never die....
by DMcGirr | Mar 11, 2009 | Carpentry, Engineering, Woodworking
Hello and welcome to the first of, hopefully, many tool purchases and reviews. As an amateur carpenter there is seldom greater a joy than purchasing a new gizmo or whirlygig with which to make working with wood and metal not only easier, but more fun. Who...
by DMcGirr | Jan 23, 2009 | Carpentry, Stuff, Table Polishing, Woodworking
That’d be me. I was mentioned on the Ray Foley Show yesterday. On Today FM, one of the national radio stations of Ireland. So there you go. Minor fame. Don’t discount local publicity outside of the internet. Hundreds of views in a single day, due to a...
by DMcGirr | Jan 9, 2009 | Carpentry, Woodworking
Welcome to the second installment of the Mario Cube project. When I last updated youse, the box was a mere skeleton. But now, the box is covered in skin, the hinges are installed, and the construction phase of the box is done. All that’s left to do is to phase...
by DMcGirr | Jan 7, 2009 | Carpentry, Woodworking
Hello St. Louis! That is, if there’s anyone out there from St. Louis reading this… Anyway, you may have been wondering: why, on a blog called “the mad carpenter” has there not been any carpentry? Well, today there is. This project is titled...
